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So There's This Girl...

May-December budding friendship or modern-day flirtation?

Yup. This is about a girl, a woman, and I am so confused.The backstory is brief. I started a new job working at a small community grocery store. It’s a grocery store, a community hub of sorts actually, and I’m a checker and she is a regular. I don’t really know anything about her and yet I feel like I know her well because she is open and, well maybe that is what is happening. She is open.…

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Champions (movie review)

Champions, starring Woody Harrelson, Film Review

TLDR: A wonderful little story of friendship, redemption, and personal growth! My best friend and I saw Champions together on a Wednesday night in an empty theater. I mention this only because with only a small number of people watching any film at a moviehouse, the experience is buffered rather than amplified as it would be with a full audience in attendance. As human beings, we feed off of one…

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Mailchimp Deleted My Account With No Warning Or Notification - 2021 Edition

Mailchimp Deleted My Account With No Warning Or Notification – 2021 Edition

So I discovered that Mailchimp deleted my account. When this happens, unexpectedly, it is very frustrating and discouraging. When I stopped running the monthly poetry events I no longer had an active need to send emails out regularly and so it just sat there. I had thought of my MailChimp account as a lockbox and assumed my subscriber information was safely tucked away until I wanted to reach out…

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Broken Vases and Bruised Faces

Broken Vases and Bruised Faces Poem about the thoughts and feelings of physical abuse by the person you are in love with. Written by survivor Jai Marie.

Via ItsJaiMarieContributing Author: Jai Marie Jai Marie and I have been following each other for many years although as my participation with blogging wanes and flows with my bipolar episodes I had not remembered her or her blog until last week when she swung by Memee’s Musings. Of course, I had to check out her blog and was amazed to rediscover that we focus on the same four topics: Mental…

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The Heavens Above

The Heavens Above Thoughts on life, out space, fear, and Inspiration4

I was born in 1969, 10 days before the Moon Landing to be precise. I remember always feeling the anticipation of an upcoming mission and would excitedly plop myself in front of the TV at the scheduled time to watch the men, and eventually women, shoot off of our planet and head into the stars above, the place where only God existed.I also remember January 28, 1986, sitting in stunned silence with…

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The Horror of Migraine

The Horror of Migraine

When I have a migraine my head feels like it is in a vice grip and one small twist is all it would take to blow my skull into a million pieces, the muscles of my face, shoulders, neck and back remaining tense and locked as my eyes bulge in pain and horror watching the bone fragments fly away from me at the speed of light! My thoughts are overwhelmed with the intensity of pain coursing through my…

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Color Your World: August

Color Your World: August

This year the Color Your World challenge has shifted from a daily challenge to a weekly challenge and because I like to take and create photo collages of the colors I have decided that I will create one post to cover the four colors of the month. If you are ready to get inspired by a color and participate in the inspirational challenge in a way that makes you happy, you can find each weeks’…

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Color Your World, Again!

Renew your spirits with a Crayola Color photo challenge! CYW Color Your World each week and be happy!

Twenty-twenty has been a world of little color, what with our staying indoors and being more inactive and more isolated then ever before and so we all strive to find new ways to color our worlds with life and laughter, renewing our spirits so we can continue forth in our day-to-day life. For me, I decided I would start writing again. It has been difficult to find any semblance of continuity in…

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Isolation Pt. 1.5 #lockdowneffect

Isolation Pt. 1.5 #lockdowneffect

In Part One of this three-part series I speculated about changes that may come to our societies, our customs, our behaviors, our thoughts, and perhaps even our DNA and our souls due to the necessity of self-imposed isolation and governmental lock-downs. I saw beauty and hope, miracles, springing up all around me, everywhere I looked. This is an add-on to the series and not so much about…

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Not Behind On Life

Not Behind On Life

So you know a lot about me and my life.  Some of you may even remember that I have a son.  He is 25 now.  Like me, he thinks too much for his own good.  Like me, and a huge percentage of the world, he has a false narrative about himself.  And, like me, he finds it very difficult to show himself grace.

grace (noun): \ ˈgrās \ Definition of grace: 1a: unmerited divine assistance given to humans for…

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20 Year Reflections: Viruses & Miracles

20 Year Reflections: Viruses & Miracles #LockDownEffect #MiraclesBeforeOurEyes #EverythingForGood #COVID19

A fun POEM — I am NOT the author — from 20 years ago about another worldwide virus that all of us survived! I just found it typed up in a box of papers I had saved and thought it a great time to share. Obviously, I thought it clever and I thought the event was worth memorializing (as did, obviously, someone else). We need to take moments of levity during tragic times.  It is a survival mechanism…

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Something from the Lighter Side

Sandman Jazz queries and my responses

CAN YOU FILL THIS OUT WITHOUT LYING? Link back to Sandman’s post with a pingback if you opt to play.   

What was the last thing you put in your mouth? 

Worst physical pain you’ve suffered? 

Favourite place you’ve been? 

How late did you stay up last night? 

If you could move somewhere else where would it be? 

Last holiday you went on? 

When was the last time…

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Isolation Pt. 1 #lockdowneffect

According to Business Insider, 4 days ago, on April 3, 2020, via statistical analysis of governmental measures to survive COVID-19*, one-third of the World Population is on Lockdown due to the devastating effects of this novel coronavirus.

It is a strange and scary time.

People are suffering for many reasons that are the same and many reasons that are different.  We are suffering from the…

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My March Coronavirus

On Sunday, March 1st, I woke up with a bad headache and a strong, dry cough. I did not go to church. I called my work and told them I was sick and would not be in until resolved.

  On Thursday, March 5th, I still had that bad headache, the strong, dry cough was now accompanied with a sore throat, muscle aches and pains, and by afternoon I was shivering and shaking, teeth chattering, it was so…

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Autism + Human Trafficking = Hooked

Autism + Human Trafficking = Hooked

Huh??

That’s right you heard me.  But what is Hooked?  Well, it used to be an award-winning book, but now it transitioning into a feature film.  The screenplay has already been honored in competitions and is going into pre-production beginning of July and I am part of it!

I still don’t get it.

This should help:

Hooked is the romantic dramedy of a young man whose autism prevents him from…

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10 Ways to 'Reach Out' When You're Struggling With Your Mental Illness

10 Ways to ‘Reach Out’ When You’re Struggling With Your Mental Illness

Via: Let’s Queer Things Up! Author: Sam Dylan Via: Let’s Queer Things Up! Author: Sam Dylan I’m a mental health writer and advocate, and a suicide attempt survivor. I’ve told people on this blog many times, “Keep reaching out.” I’ve written multiple articles preaching the importance of vulnerability, defying stigma, and owning your struggles. This is my whole thing, okay? This is what I do. So…

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Out of the Darkness II

Out of the Darkness II

A year ago I wrote a piece on the Out of the Darkness community walks put on by the American Foundation to prevent suicide.  Well, today we participated once again in our community walk.  It’s been a year since we lost our last loved one to suicide (rather than a month) so attending the walk was much easier, no more tears only a touch of sadness — nothing more than we feel on any given day.  We…